Arkansas’ squirrel season runs through Feb. 28, and the world-famous Mepps Lure Co. reminds hunters they can make money by saving and selling the tails of the squirrels they kill to eat. The tails can ...

If you visit with any number of anglers, many will mention cutting their teeth with some type of Mepps lure. The versatile inline spinner is ideal for species of game fish ranging in size from ...

Thank God they flick their tails. I’d been hearing one bark for five minutes, but it’s only that ­visual cue that reveals the rodent, flattened and frozen against a hickory 30 yards away. I brace the ...

With nearly 3,000 species of snake in the world, there's bound to be a wide variety of hunting methods among them. But one segment of vipers has a particularly interesting way of catching a meal. They ...

ANTIGO – Mepps makes about 8,000 spinning-lure combinations at its 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, but if you buy one of its storied spinners with hooks dressed in squirrel-tail, you can ...

For many of us, the classic inline spinner represents the first artificial lure on which we duped a stream-dwelling trout — a ...

As snow flurries quietly danced from overcast skies on a cold Saturday morning, the sharp rapport of a Marlin .22-caliber rifle pierced the eerie January silence. Joining the snow in its downward ...

FISHING – Howard Worden, creator of the world famous Rooster Tail spinner, and many other fishing lures, died in Arizona on Feb. 11. He was 93. Worden was one of the owners of Yakima Bait Co., founded ...